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Rolling Stone Country Premieres new Jaime Wyatt Video

April 25, 2017

See Rebel Cowgirl Jaime Wyatt's Gritty Video for 'Best of Me'

Rolling Stone Country Artist You Need to Know sings in front of a monument of defiance in "Giving Back the Best of Me".

Up-and-comer Jaime Wyatt has gotten a lot of attention for both her music –a seamless blend of early California country and modern outlaw sensibilities – and for her unusual origin story: Her new album Felony Blues got its title from an actual stint in prison.

Don't let that story distract, though. Wyatt can write a rowdy anthem with the best of them, but she also knows her way around a ballad, as heard particularly in the Felony Blues standout track "Giving Back the Best of Me."

"It's the closest thing I've got to a love song in my collection of songs," Wyatt tells Rolling Stone Country. "But it's also feeling like you do your best, but you're still like, 'How the hell did I score so well on this person? I slipped in the back door.'"

In an exclusive premiere of the video for that tune, Wyatt performs in various Seattle locales, including in front of an historic home, the Edith Macefield House. Macefield, who passed away in 2008, famously didn't sell her home to a commercial development company, leaving the tiny structure to eventually be flanked by giant, faceless buildings.

"That little house behind me in the video – it’s a tiny little house with two huge buildings on the side of it – that’s the Macefield House," Wyatt says. "It’s a symbol of all this gnarly progress and change, and the few people who stand up for it."

In addition to paying homage to Macefield, Wyatt also honors a group of people who have been integral to her development as an artist, the dancers of Underwood Stables. (At the end of the clip, Wyatt shows her love for Underwood in a pretty permanent way.)

"This group of dancers, they’re like my family up there," she explains. "They kind of adopted me and really helped me book shows, then they all come out and dance full force like that. At the end when I’m getting tattooed there, they’re tattooing ‘Underwood Stables’ on me."

In a couple weeks, Wyatt will hit the road on a summer tour, kicking off May 6th in Huntington Beach, California. Check out a full list of Wyatt's tour dates below.